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The UN's top climate negotiator voiced optimism Monday that a deal can be salvaged next month at world talks on global warming, but said US President Barack Obama must offer a target and financing.
Levels of happiness could help shape economic policy in the industrialized world in the same way such factors have gained prominence in developing countries, said economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.
Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.
COLOMBO, 23 November 2009 (IRIN) - The release of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in Sri Lanka's north is welcome, but the government must now ensure they are properly cared for, the UN and NGOs say.
Efforts to craft a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen next month will certainly "yield a success," the UN's top climate official has pledged.
A forensics team has found the remains of a British journalist kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Lebanon 24 years ago, the British embassy said on Monday.
Denmark's premier raised the stakes for next month's U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen by inviting 191 world leaders to attend.
Prosecutors seek $500 million in assets from a non-profit Muslim group suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
COPENHAGEN - Sixty-five world leaders so far have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December and several more have responded positively to invitations, a Danish official said Sunday.
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday welcomed the appointment of Belgium's Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy as first president of the European Union and Catherine Ashton as the EU's top diplomat. Ban said he looks forward to working ...
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Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- European Union environment ministers may underline the need for climate aid for developing countries as they meet today for final preparations before the United Nations summit in Copenhagen.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the UN General Assembly prepares to debate a proposal calling for nations to take action against the defamation of religion, majorities in 13 of 20 nations polled around the world support the right to criticize a religion.
DETROIT — The U.S. auto industry will recover only a little next year, weighed down by high un...
A flurry of executions has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to quell pockets of unrest around the nation.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is drawing criticism for receiving Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his first state visit to Brazil.
New York/Karthoum 15 November 2009 - Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict will be visiting Sudan from 15 to 23 November 2009, upon the invitation of the Government of Sudan.
The Secretary-General has been informed that the remains of Alec Collett, who was on assignment for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and disappeared in Lebanon in 1985, have been found in eastern Lebanon.
----Biotechnology Industry Organization : WHAT: For reporters attending the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Biotechnology Industry Organization and BioEuropa will host a technology showcase and panel discussion to describe how industrial biotechnology applications are already helping to mitigate global climate change.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A U.N. committee says Iran should release political prisoners arrested during protests over the country's disputed presidential election in June.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil was little changed after failing to break through resistance at $80 a barrel as the dollar weakened and fuel demand dropped in the U.S., the world’s biggest energy-consuming country.
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